Breaking the System: The Miseducation of America

We ask the critical questions about topics that no one else is. We push the boundaries to find middle ground in a divided Nation.

Breaking the System: The Miseducation of America is a news podcast hosted by Derrick Harris, with 94 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Derrick Harris hosts Breaking the System: The Miseducation of America, a news show with 94 episodes published.

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  Episode #94

  Ep94:“Title: The Cameras on the Curb: How Dallas Is Automating Code Enforcement

  Sep 25, 202630 minS1

  Today, we’re looking at what happens when a basic city service—trash collection—becomes part of a citywide surveillance and enforcement system.In Dallas, trucks that travel residential streets to collect bulk trash have also been equipped with high-definition cameras and artificial intelligence software. As they move through neighborhoods, the cameras capture images of properties, and software identifies possible code violations: overgrown grass, illegal dumping, fallen limbs, peeling paint, damaged structures, and other visible signs of neglect.Supporters see a practical tool: a faster way to identify problems, improve neighborhoods, and direct limited city resources where they are needed.Critics see something else: a major expansion of automated government oversight, one that could fall hardest on residents with the fewest resources to respond.This is not a simple story about technology being good or bad. It is a story about scale. What happens when a city takes a system that once depended on human judgment and turns it into a high-volume data pipeline?Let’s break it down.

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  Episode #93

  Ep93:“Title: 32 Hours to AI: Redefining Work, Wealth, and How We’ll Make It Work"

  Sep 21, 202636 minS1

  Today we are breaking down a question that strikes right at the core of how we live, work, and value human effort: What if your 40-hour workweek isn’t an unchangeable law of nature, but simply a policy choice made nearly a century ago—and AI is completely changing the math?(0:30) A group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington is once again pushing legislation to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act, attempting to lower the standard American workweek from 40 hours down to 32—without reducing a single dollar of workers’ pay or benefits. But this time around, the debate isn't just about labor history or work-life balance. It’s hitting right as generative AI, automation, and advanced algorithms are triggering a massive productivity surge across global industries.(1:00) Why now? Because as technology boosts output per worker, leaders on both sides of the aisle are debating readiness, economic fallout, safety nets, and whether baseline standards should evolve. Over the next thirty minutes, we are going to unpack the mechanics of this proposal, analyze how AI acts as the central economic engine of this shift, explore what leaders and workers need to know, and run a real-world thought experiment. Let’s dive in.

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  Episode #91

  Ep91:"The Safety Trap"

  Sep 14, 202636 minS1

  Tonight we examine how modern infrastructure quietly trades liberty for the illusion of peace, how automated logic replaces human nuance, and why the most dangerous trap in history is the one we willingly enter because it promises to keep us safe. We will look at the anatomy of the iron cage, the concrete logic of structural determinism, and the alternative offered by Vision: grace in the face of imperfection. Then came the federal court.

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  Episode #90

  Ep90:"The Water Won't Testify"— Sterling v. City of Jackson

  Sep 11, 202631 minS1

  This is the story of that case — Sterling v. City of Jackson — and honestly, what the court ended up saying is more unsettling than the water itself. I want to walk through the actual reasoning, step by step, because the headline undersells it. The reasoning is the part that follows you home.Then came the federal court.

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  Episode #89

  Ep89:"The Definition" Clancy VS Morley

  Sep 9, 202644 minS1

  So now we have to ask the question the pattern is begging us to ask. If the common thread is "woman," and "woman" is treated as a kind of biological vulnerability to catastrophic psychosis, then... where does that logic go? What happens if we follow it all the way to the end of the thread?This is "Shadows of the Mind." And today we're following that thread — to see where it leads, and how to stop before we get there.

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